Walter Cannon's Anomic Suicide

Stress is enhancing the mind-body response to stimuli and inducing fear or anxiety. According to Walter Cannon theory, he believes that measuring health is the ability of the human organism to function effectively within given environment. When the body experiences fear or anxiety the body goes through a physiological change to prepare the body for dynamic effort and possibly injury. According to Cannon, his theory expressed the concept of “fight or flight” a reaction to a physiological change to identify the body experiencing stress. The body experiences physiological change when it primarily involves autonomic and neuroendocrine systems. Regardless of the stressful setting stimulates physiological change it depends on an individual’s perception

Suicidal is any action that could cause one’s self to die. Durkheim focuses on how the large society influences individuals. Durkheim study demonstrates how society develops stressful circumstance where people are forced to respond to the situation not of their choosing. Durkheim’s theory of suicide has a great understanding of how society contributed stress on individuals. He identify sorts of suicide on the basis of the relationship of the one’s perceptive of society. One of the important types is egoistic suicide, where someone feels isolated from society and feel overwhelmed by the resulting stress. In the egoistic suicide Durkheim describe this person as a self-central and lacks good feeling. In Anomic suicide is the result of a sudden change influencing a chronic lack of regulation to lead to a state of restlessness in which the norms and values are no larger significant. In Altruistic suicide this type of suicide is where people feel strongly integrated into demanding society and only seem like suicide is the only escape. The fatalistic suicide is the where the individual experience oppressive where suicide is prefer than living with their

One of the types of social stressors is life event such as divorce, marriage or losing a job. Life event stress can be negative or positive. An example of a negative life event can be a death of a close family member. A positive life event stressor can be graduating from college. The other type of social stressors is chronic strain that is problems and threats that individual face on daily basis. Chronic strain is seen as a stressful experience it is usual a continuously stressful event. An example of a chronic strain is poverty. I have experience both major type of social stressors. For a positive life event stressor is trying to plan a vacation. Just as like a negative stress positive stress can bring a new sense of tension and anxiety. As for a negative life event I experience last year a death of a close family member. As a college student I have experience chronic strain for example taking overload of role and responsibilities cause a significant amount of stress. Experiencing life event and chronic strain of stressors, I have learn that these types of stress have a huge affect of my health. In this course, I learn Leonard Pearlin identified two major types of social stressors. I was able to apply my experiences with the two major social stressors. I also learn that the effects of stress can influence someone